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Good for one year’s membershipDonated by the Chicago History Museum*177. CUSTOM BOOKPLATEA bookplate designed to suit your collection by Hayward BlakeDonated by Hayward Blake178. DROP-SPINE BOXMade to fit a book of your choosing by the Caxton Club’s 2009-2010 Scholarship FellowDonated by Kelly Parsell179. ONE STEP CLOSER TO AUTHORSHIP“It was a dark and stormy night….”Have you ever looked at your collection and thought “There’s a story in there, I know there is”?Bring your idea, the names of your main characters, and a list of the items in your collection that inspiredyour story. Riva Feschbach (art historian, librarian, and former Newberry staffer) will produce a researchplan that will help you turn your collection into the next great work of historical fictionDonated by Riva Feschbach*180. PUT YOURSELF IN A BOOK WITH ERNEST HEMINGWAYDiane Gilbert Madsen, lifetime Chicagoan, former Director of the Department of EconomicDevelopment for the State of Illinois, and author of a bibliomystery involving a manuscript of RobertBurns, will make you a (pleasant) character in her second mystery novel, Hunting for Hemingway, to bepublished in September, 2010Donated by Diane Gilbert madsen*181. PUT YOURSELF IN A BOOK WITH A. CONAN DOYLEDiane Gilbert Madsen, alumna of the University of Chicago, abnout whom more informationcan be found at www.authorsden.com, will make you a (nice) character in her planned third D.D. McGilLiterati Mystery, The Tin Dispatch Box, which involves Sir Arthur Conan DoyleDonated by Diane Gilbert Madsen182. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARY SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPThis comes at the Collectors’ Circle ($200) level, and includes a copy of the latest exhibit catalog,The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance RomeGift of the Library Society at the University of Chicago*183. WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH YOUR COLLECTION?Caxtonian Bruce Barnett, antiquarian book dealer (The Book Block), appraiser, estate planner,author, MBA-level finance instructor, and attorney with an advanced degree in tax law, us offering up totwo hours of consultation on collections and considerations for their ultimate disposal. (Bruce iscurrently working with the IRS on new rules for charitable contributions. He has worked in the trust andestates field and has published articles about the disposition of collections.)Donated by Bruce BarnettTOURS184. ABRAHAM LINCOLN TOURAn ever-popular tour of sites in and around Chicago relating to Lincoln and the Civil War
Donated by Brooks Davis185. NEWBERRY LIBRARY TOURA personalized tour of whatever facet of the Newberry’s collection interests you most (Do youwant to look over the First Folio? Road maps of Iowa? Extra-illustrated books? Name it.)Donated by Bob KarrowWORKS OF ART186. Jack AppletonGLAZED SILOAndFARM PORCHTwo prints, one of them signed, by the Notre Dame artistDonated by a Print Accumulator187. Thomas BewickBITTERNA matted print produced by R. Hunter Middleton in 1949Donated by Bernard Rost188. BIRDEVA AND BRUNOA charming Victorian chromo of a girl, her doll, and a St. Bernard, measures, with distressedgilded frame, about 18 x 20Donated by Tom Swanstrom189. CorneilleTERRE AFRICAINEA signed, number print by Corneille (#35 of 100), from 1959; measures, with frame, ca. 25 x 29Donated by Tom Swanstrom190. GEISHAA framed Japanese print, measuring, with frame, about 14 x 18Donated by Tom Swanstrom191. Gunning KingENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEASTFramed cartoon (ca. 1910?)Donated by Donna Tuke192. LEAF FROM BOOK OF HOURSFlanders, ca. 1450Beginning with the burnished gold C on red and blue, this leagf contains Psalm 97 (King jamesPsalm 98). The vellum leaf also includes ten illuminated one-line initials alternating in deep blue withdelicate red penwork and burnished gold with blue penworkDonated by Junie L. Sinson193. Rudolph J. NedvedTHE CROWN OF NORMANDYAndTINTORETTO’S HOUSE
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